Introduction: The Missing Link - Stephen Ross Part One – The Modernism of Theory: Concrete Connections Rip the Veil of the Old Vision Across, and Walk Through the Rent: Thinking Through Affect in D. H. Lawrence and Deleuze and Guattari - Anneleen Masschelein Deleuze and His Sources - Ian Buchanan Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Two Sublimes of Surrealism - Roger Rothman The Two Sublimes, Fourth Time Around - Allan Stoekl What true project has been lost?’ Modern Art and Henri Lefebvre’s Critique of Everyday Life - Thomas S. Davis Disdained Everyday Fields (A Response to T. Davis) - Ben Highmore Time and Its Countermeasures: Modern Messianisms in Woolf, Benjamin, and Agamben - Hilary Thompson Time’s Exception: A Response to Hilary Thompson - Pamela Caughie Part Two – The Theory of Modernism: Abstract Affiliations Late Modernist Form in the Postmodern Period - Neil Levi In the Time of Theory, The Timeliness of Modernism - Glenn Willmott Invisible Times: Modernism as Ruptural Unity - C. D. Blanton ‘More than a hint of desperation’: Modernism, Theory and Rupture - Morag Shiach The Friendliness of Fate: Modernism and the Re-Orientation of Aesthetics - Oleg Gelikman What’s New? On Gelikman on Adorno and the Modernist Aesthetics of Novelty - Martin Jay Fables of Progression: Modernism, Modernity, Narrative - Andrew John Miller Modernism and the Moment of Defeat: A Response to Miller - Scott McCracken Part Three – Forum Aesthetics - Charles Altieri Ethics - Melba Cuddy-Keane Green - Bonnie Kime Scott Theory - Susan Stanford Friedman Branding - Jennifer Wicke Avant-garde - Jane Goldman Afterword - Fredric Jameson